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  • The investor base for residential mortgage-backed securities is shifting from fast money to longer-term asset management and real estate investment trusts, according to John Sim, managing director and MBS analyst at JPMorgan, at the bank’s annual Securitized Products Research Conference on Wednesday.
  • Investors in Nordea Bank’s pan-Nordic commercial mortgage-backed securitization, Midgaard Finance, are said to be pleased with the proposed buy back of the €155 million ($224.8 million) class A2 notes announced last week.
  • The sweep of regulatory reforms affecting securitization in Europe and the U.S. still carries the risk of regulatory arbitrage thanks to differences in policy between the two regions, market professionals warned Tuesday.
  • Low-income borrowers who qualify for Ginnie Mae residential mortgage loans could be among the U.S. borrowers most affected by the Dodd-Frank Act’s regulations governing risk retention and minimum down payment requirements, according to Greg Reiter, agency mortgage-backed securities strategist at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
  • The U.S. Federal Reserve and BlackRock made it clear to major broker-dealers and investment banks that they needed to submit bids in the first two rounds of auctions of the $30 billion Maiden Lane II portfolio if they wanted to participate in further auctions, according to a New York-based investor that looked at the bonds.
  • Achmea Hypotheekbank intends to redeem all the notes from its Dutch Mortgage Portfolio Loan (DMPL) 4, a 2004-vintage residential mortgage-backed securitization, in a buyback scheduled for next month.
  • U.K. supermarket chain Tesco is said to be eyeing a return to the commercial mortgage-backed securities arena by doing more sale and lease-back bond deals.
  • Jonathan Hierl has been promoted to the New York-based head of residential mortgage-backed securities trading at StormHarbour Securities following Brett Ackerman’s departure last week.
  • Standard & Poor’s today laid partial blame for its revised negative outlook on long-term U.S. debt at the feet of the government’s holdings of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae mortgages.